This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

1927. Written by the author to use as a textbook in his class in cosmic history at Oglethorpe University. Contents: heaven of heavens; inhabitants of the heavens; what is happening in the heavens; material of heaven; hearth in the heavens; our home in the heavens; unity of life; bonds of life; continuity of life; unity and continuity of awareness; origin of life; ascending pathway; infancy of man; homo sapiens arrive; dawn of civilization; birth of the gods; great analogy; message of the mother; eternal struggle; universal life; unity and continuity of being; new knowledge and the old faith; end of the world, and after.

Long out of print, this is the only novel set during the infamous Atlanta race riot of 1906, in which dozens of African Americans were killed or injured. The ""white circle"" of the book's title delineates a realm of freedom, opportunity, and equality into which no black person could enter. The tensions that exploded into three days of deadly mob violence are explored through the intertwined stories of a white journalist, a black college professor, and the woman they both love - an artist of mixed race who chooses to pass as white. Until the riot, Atlanta had been touted as a place where blacks and whites lived peacefully, yet separately. Thornwell Jacobs tries to make sense of what happened by weaving into his story threads of thought on such issues as media sensationalism, interracial love, social Darwinism, and class divisions within black and white communities. This edition of ""The Law of the White Circle"" comes with additional writings that offer alternative perspectives on the Atlanta riot and put the novel and its real-world events in historical and sociological context. Included are a foreword by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, a noted historian of the South whose scholarly interests include lynching and historical memory; an essay by historian Paul Stephen Hudson, the recognized authority on Thornwell Jacobs; an excerpt from ""A Man Called White"", the autobiography of NAACP leader Walter White, whose family lived in Atlanta at the time of the riot; and the poem ""A Litany of Atlanta,"" composed during the riot by the renowned African American scholar, writer, and civil rights leader W. E. B. Du Bois.

Written by the author to use as a textbook in his class in cosmic history at Oglethorpe University. Contents: heaven of heavens; inhabitants of the heavens; what is happening in the heavens; material of heaven; hearth in the heavens; our home in the heavens; unity of life; bonds of life; continuity of life; unity and continuity of awareness; origin of life; ascending pathway; infancy of man; homo sapiens arrive; dawn of civilization; birth of the gods; great analogy; message of the mother; eternal struggle; universal life; unity and continuity of being; new knowledge and the old faith; end of the world, and after.